[PATCH 5.10.y 2/3] rxrpc: Fix notification vs call-release vs recvmsg

Sasha Levin sashal at kernel.org
Wed Jul 22 16:21:32 PDT 2026


From: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>

[ Upstream commit 2fd895842d49c23137ae48252dd211e5d6d8a3ed ]

When a call is released, rxrpc takes the spinlock and removes it from
->recvmsg_q in an effort to prevent racing recvmsg() invocations from
seeing the same call.  Now, rxrpc_recvmsg() only takes the spinlock when
actually removing a call from the queue; it doesn't, however, take it in
the lead up to that when it checks to see if the queue is empty.  It *does*
hold the socket lock, which prevents a recvmsg/recvmsg race - but this
doesn't prevent sendmsg from ending the call because sendmsg() drops the
socket lock and relies on the call->user_mutex.

Fix this by firstly removing the bit in rxrpc_release_call() that dequeues
the released call and, instead, rely on recvmsg() to simply discard
released calls (done in a preceding fix).

Secondly, rxrpc_notify_socket() is abandoned if the call is already marked
as released rather than trying to be clever by setting both pointers in
call->recvmsg_link to NULL to trick list_empty().  This isn't perfect and
can still race, resulting in a released call on the queue, but recvmsg()
will now clean that up.

Fixes: 17926a79320a ("[AF_RXRPC]: Provide secure RxRPC sockets for use by userspace and kernel both")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman at auristor.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne at auristor.com>
cc: Junvyyang, Tencent Zhuque Lab <zhuque at tencent.com>
cc: LePremierHomme <kwqcheii at proton.me>
cc: Simon Horman <horms at kernel.org>
cc: linux-afs at lists.infradead.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250717074350.3767366-4-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org>
Stable-dep-of: e66f8f32f501 ("rxrpc: Fix socket notification race")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal at kernel.org>
---
 net/rxrpc/call_object.c | 27 +++++++++++----------------
 net/rxrpc/recvmsg.c     |  4 ++++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/rxrpc/call_object.c b/net/rxrpc/call_object.c
index 2240e93b0048af..9a0fbce9ee8321 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/call_object.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/call_object.c
@@ -529,7 +529,6 @@ void rxrpc_release_call(struct rxrpc_sock *rx, struct rxrpc_call *call)
 {
 	const void *here = __builtin_return_address(0);
 	struct rxrpc_connection *conn = call->conn;
-	bool put = false;
 
 	_enter("{%d,%d}", call->debug_id, refcount_read(&call->ref));
 
@@ -547,23 +546,13 @@ void rxrpc_release_call(struct rxrpc_sock *rx, struct rxrpc_call *call)
 	rxrpc_put_call_slot(call);
 	rxrpc_delete_call_timer(call);
 
-	/* Make sure we don't get any more notifications */
+	/* Note that at this point, the call may still be on or may have been
+	 * added back on to the socket receive queue.  recvmsg() must discard
+	 * released calls.  The CALL_RELEASED flag should prevent further
+	 * notifications.
+	 */
 	write_lock_bh(&rx->recvmsg_lock);
-
-	if (!list_empty(&call->recvmsg_link)) {
-		_debug("unlinking once-pending call %p { e=%lx f=%lx }",
-		       call, call->events, call->flags);
-		list_del(&call->recvmsg_link);
-		put = true;
-	}
-
-	/* list_empty() must return false in rxrpc_notify_socket() */
-	call->recvmsg_link.next = NULL;
-	call->recvmsg_link.prev = NULL;
-
 	write_unlock_bh(&rx->recvmsg_lock);
-	if (put)
-		rxrpc_put_call(call, rxrpc_call_put);
 
 	write_lock(&rx->call_lock);
 
@@ -612,6 +601,12 @@ void rxrpc_release_calls_on_socket(struct rxrpc_sock *rx)
 		rxrpc_put_call(call, rxrpc_call_put);
 	}
 
+	while ((call = list_first_entry_or_null(&rx->recvmsg_q,
+						struct rxrpc_call, recvmsg_link))) {
+		list_del_init(&call->recvmsg_link);
+		rxrpc_put_call(call, rxrpc_call_put);
+	}
+
 	_leave("");
 }
 
diff --git a/net/rxrpc/recvmsg.c b/net/rxrpc/recvmsg.c
index 8501150c2c35a3..db93b05067ac89 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/recvmsg.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/recvmsg.c
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ void rxrpc_notify_socket(struct rxrpc_call *call)
 
 	if (!list_empty(&call->recvmsg_link))
 		return;
+	if (test_bit(RXRPC_CALL_RELEASED, &call->flags)) {
+		rxrpc_see_call(call);
+		return;
+	}
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
 
-- 
2.53.0




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